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1 ORDINANCE NO. 203 AN ORDINANCE CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION IN THE TOWN OF PLEASANTON FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE ELEC TORS OF SAID TOWN THE PROPOSITION OF INCURRING A BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF SAID TOWN FOR THE ACQUISITION, CON- STRUCTION AND COMPLETION OF THE FOLLOWING MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT, TO WIT: A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; DE- CLARING THE ESTIMATED COST OF SAID MUNICIPAL IMPROVE- MENT, THE AMOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID INDEBTEDNESS TO BE INCURRED THEREFOR, AND THE MAXIMUM RATE OF IN- TEREST TO BE PAID THEREON; MAKING PROVISION FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES; FIXING THE DATE OF SAID ELECTION, THE MANNER OF HOLDING THE SAME, ESTABLISHING ELECTION PRECINCTS AND POLLING PLACES FOR SAID ELECTION AND APPOINTING BOARDS OF ELECTION THEREFOR, AND PRO- VIDING FOR NOTICE THEREOF. WHEREAS, the City Council of the Town of Pleasanton, by resolution duly passed and adopted at a meeting of said City Council duly and regu- larly held, by affirmative vote of more than two - thirds of all of its mem- bers, did determine that the public interest and necessity demand the ac- quisition, construction and completion of the municipal improvement here- inafter mentioned and did further determine the cost of said proposed mu- nicipal improvement will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary an- nual income and revenue of said municipality, which resolution was duly entered on the minutes of said meeting of said City Council, and is now on file and of record in the Clerk's office of said Town, now, therefore, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF PLEASANTON DOES OR- DAIN as follows: Section 1. That a special municipal election be and is hereby ordered and will be held in said Town of Pleasanton on Tuesday, the 2nd day of March, 1948, at which election shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said Town the question of incurring a bonded indebtedness of said Town for the object and purpose set forth in the following proposition, to wit: IPROPOSITION A: Shall the Town of Pleasanton incur a bonded (Sewage Treat- indebtedness in the amount of $125,000 for the ment Plant) • acquisition, construction and completion of the following municipal improvement, to wit: •Sew- age treatment plant, including primary and secondary clarifiers, filters, digester, control building, sludge drying beds, evaporation ponds, reconstruction of existing facilities, sewer pipes and pipe lines, pumps, machinery, equipment, lands, easements, and other works, property or structures necessary or convenient for sewage disposal of the Town of Pleasanton? The estimated cost of the municipal improvement as set forth in said Proposition A is the sum of $125,000 and the amount of the indebtedness proposed to be incurred for said municipal improvement is the sum of $1.25,000. Section 2. The said City Council does hereby submit to the qualified elec- tors of said Town of Pleasanton at said special municipal election the said proposition set forth in Section 1 of this ordinance, and designates and re- fers to said proposition in the form of ballot hereinafter prescribed for use at said election. (a) Said special municipal election shall be held and conducted, and the votes thereof canvassed, and the returns thereof made, and the result there- of ascertained and determined as herein provided; and in all particulars not prescribed by this ordinance, said election shall be held as provided by law for the holding of municipal elections in said Town, (b) All persons qualified to vote at municipal elections in said Town of ' Pleasanton upon the date of the election herein provided for shall be quali- fied to vote upon the proposition submitted at said special municipal elec- tion. (c) The polls at the polling places hereinafter designated shall be opened at seven o'clock A. M. of said day of election and shall be kept open con -. tinuously thereafter until seven o'clock P. M. of said day of election, when the polls shall be closed (except as provided in Section 5734 of the Elections Code). and the election officers shall thereupon proceed to canvass the bal- lots cast thereat. (d) For the conduct of said special municipal election the Town of Pleas- anton shall constitute one voting precinct the boundaries of which shall be coterminous with the boundaries of said Town. The polling place therein, and the election officers appointed to conduct said election thereat shall be as follows: CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT A (comprising all of the territory within the corporate limits of the Town of Pleasanton) Polling Place: City Hall, Main and Division Streets, Pleasanton, California. Inspector: Charles S. Graham Judge: Newton D. Arendt Clerk: Mrs. Caroline Bedsworth Clerk: Mrs. Mary Koze 1 (e) The ballots to be used at said special municipal election shall be sub- stantially in the following form, to wit: No. (This number is to be torn off by Inspector) No. MARK CROSSES (X) ON BALLOT ONLY WITH RUB- BER STAMP; NEVER WITH PEN OR PENCIL. (ABSENTEE BALLOTS MAY BE MARKED WITH PEN AND INK OR PENCIL). (Fold ballot to this perforated line, leaving top margin ex- posed) MUNICIPAL BALLOT SPECIAL MUNICIPAL BOND ELECTION TOWN OF PLEASANTON Tuesday, March 2, 1948 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To vote on any measure. stamp a cross (X) in the voting square after the word "YES" or after the word "NO ". All marks except the cross (X) are forbidden. All dis- tinguishing marks or erasures are forbidden and make the ballot void. If you wrongly stamp, tear or deface this ballot, return it to the Inspector of Election and obtain another. On absent voter's_ballots mark a cross (X) with pen,or, p(ng1. - ,, " i_+ .01/1. • PROPOSITION A: S h allthe lTown'soof (Sewage Treaty Pleasanton incur a ment Plant, bonded indebtedness in the amount of $125,000 for the acquisition, construction, and com- pletion of the following municipal im- provement, to wit: Sewage treatment plant, including primary and secondary clarifiers, filters, digester, control build- ing, sludge drying beds, evaporation ponds, reconstruction of existing facili- ties, sewer pipes and pipe lines, pumps, machinery, equipment, lands, easements, and other works, property or structures necessary or convenient for sewage dis- posal of the Town of Pleasanton? YES NO (f) Each voter to vote for said proposition hereby submitted and for incurring said bonded indebtedness set forth in said proposition shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite the word "YES" on the ballot to the right of said proposition, and to vote against said proposition, and against incurring said indebtedness shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space op- posite the word "NO" on the ballot to the right of said proposition. On ab- sent voter's ballots the cross (X) may be marked with pen or pencil. (g) The returns of said election shall be made out and signed by the election officers and shall be by them deposited with the City Clerk, to- gether with the ballots cast at said election; and this City Council shall meet at its usual meeting place and canvass said returns on Tuesday, the 9th day of March, 1948, (being the first Tuesday after said election) at the hour of 8 P. M., and declare the result of said election.. Section 3. Said City Council proposes to issue and sell bonds of said Town of Pleasanton in the amount and for the object and purpose specified in said proposition if two- thirds of the qualified electors voting on such proposition at said special election shall vote in favor of said proposition. Said bonds shall be negotiable in form and of the character known as serial and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five (5) per cent. per annum, payable semi - annually; provided that said bonds may be issued and sold as the City Council may determine, and either at a premium or on the basis of the low- est net interest cost to said Town, but in no event for less than the par value and accrued interest to date of delivery. Provision is hereby made for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as follows, to wit: The City Council of the Town of Pleasanton shall, at the time of fix- ing the general tax levy and in the manner for such general tax levy pro - vicled, levy and collect annually each year until said bonds are paid, or until there shall' be a sum in the treasury of said Town set apart for that pur- pose to meet all sums coming due for principal and interest on such bonds, a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on such bonds as the same be- comes due, and also such part of the principal thereof as shall become due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the time for making the next general tax levy can be made available for the payment of such principal. Said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other muni- cipal taxes are collected, and be used for no other purpose than the payment of said bonds and accruing interest. Section 4. The City Clerk of the Town of Pleasanton is hereby directed, upon the passage and adoption of this ordinance, to publish the same once a week for two (2) weeks in The Pleasanton Times, which is a newspaper of general circulation published less than six (6) days a week in said Town of Pleasanton, and such publication shall constitute notice of said election. No other notice of the election hereby called need be given. Section 5. This ordinance shall be forthwith entered upon the minutes of this City Council and in the Ordinance Book of said Town. This ordinance, being an ordinance calling and ordering an election, shall take effect from and after its final passage and approval. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of January, 1948, by the follow- ing vote: AYES: Councilmen Brenner, Oxsen, Hansen, and Trimingham. NOES: Councilmen None. ABSENT: Councilman Mezza. EARL TRIMINGHAM, Mayor of the Town of Pleasanton, California. Attest: MATT JORGENSEN, City Clerk. The foregoing ordinance is presented to me for approval and is hereby approved this 20th day of January, 1948. EARL TRIMINGHAM, Mayor of the Town of Pleasanton, California.